Research interests

About

Allan Parsons lives and works in London, where he studied design and philosophy. He works in academic liaison at the University of Westminster and is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
He has tutored undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students, and has worked in recent years on the delivery of research skills programmes at Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Westminster. Prior to that, he spent many years as a consultant for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on its International Futures Programme.
He has also worked on government-funded, technology-related research projects with universities, such as Imperial College, Brunel University and University of the Arts, and large corporations, such as Arup and British Telecom.
In his early career he worked for such august institutions as the University of London's Institute of Education, the British Library and the British Film Institute, as well as such publishers as Bowker-Saur, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and ProQuest.